2007 in art

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The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works.

## Events

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* April - The Museo Alameda opens in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.[1]
* 10 June – 21 November – 52nd Venice Biennale.
* October - Execution by Yue Minjun sells at Sotheby's in London for £2.9 million pounds (US $5.9 million - euro 4.2 million) making it most expensive artwork ever sold by a Chinese contemporary artist.[2]
* 18 October – In New York City, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits.
* 22 October – In Amersfoort (Netherlands) a fire at the Armando museum destroys 63 paintings from the permanent and loan collections.[3]
* 2 November – Nightwatching, Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, is released. It is the first film in Greenaway's series "Dutch Masters".[4]
* 14 November – Sotheby's sells La Fuensanta by Julio Romero de Torres to a private collector.[5]
* 20 December – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. It is recovered about three weeks later.

## Exhibitions

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* 23 January \- 13 May \- "Martin Ramirez at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City[6]
* 10 May–28 July \- “Universal Language & the Avant-Garde: Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, and Jonas Mekas” at the Maya Stendhal gallery in New York City[7]
* 14 June-16 September \- National Portrait Gallery, "BP Portrait Award 2007"[8]
* 15 June until 26 August \- Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York[9]
* 23 June until 16 September \- Hans Schabus: Deserted Conquest at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico[10]
* September–December - Garden in Transit, a public art exhibit, is displayed on New York City taxis between September 2007 and December 2007

## Awards

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* Archibald Prize – John Beard, Portrait of Janet Laurence
* Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
* Caldecott Medal – David Wiesner, Flotsam
* Turner Prize – Mark Wallinger, State Britain
* Venice Biennale – (June 10 - November 21)
* Lion d'Or Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement:Malick Sidibé (Mali)
* Lion d'Or for Best Pavilion: Andreas Fogarasi (Hungary)
* Wynne prize – Philip Wolfhagen, Winter Nocturne IV

## Works

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See also: Category:2007 paintings and Category:2007 sculptures

* Sanford Biggers \- Blossom[11]
* Ed Dwight – Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
* Russ Faxon – Statue of John Stith Pemberton (sculpture, Atlanta)
* Valerie Hegarty \- Fallen Bierstadt (after A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt)[12]
* David Hockney – Bigger Trees Near Warter
* Zhang Huan \- Three Legged Buddha (sculpture)[13]
* Maya Lin \- Above and Below (sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art)
* John Ney Michel and Christopher Liberatos – Statue of William Moultrie (sculpture, Charleston, South Carolina)
* Stephen Kettle – Statue of Alan Turing (sculpture in slate, Bletchley Park, England)
* Jo Ractliffe – Roadside stall on the way to Viana (photograph)
* Ian Rank-Broadley – The Stretcher Bearers and The Gates (bronzes, Armed Forces Memorial, Staffordshire, England)
* Neo Rauch
* Hunter's Room
* Waiting for the Barbarians
* Allison Saar – "Swing Low" – Harriet Tubman Memorial (Harriet Tubman Plaza, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City)[14]
* Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (installation at Tate Modern, London)
* Luke Sullivan – The Fourth Secret of Fatima (sculpture)[15][16][17]
* James Turrell – Dividing the Light (installation at Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States)

## Deaths

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### January to March

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* 8 January – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director (b.1925).
* 11 January – Bryan Pearce, English naïve painter (b.1929).
* 20 January – Dan Christensen, American abstract painter (b.1942).
* 4 February – Jules Olitski, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (b.1922).
* 6 February – Heinz Berggruen, German art collector
* 14 February – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (b.1925).
* 22 February
* Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b.1918).
* Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (b.1965; ovarian cancer).[18]
* 2 March – Madi Phala, South African artist (b.1955).
* 6 March – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (b.1929).
* 16 March – Raymond Nasher, American art collector (b.1921).

### April to June

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* 7 April – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b.1931).
* 8 April – Sol LeWitt, American conceptual and minimalist artist (b.1928).
* 10 April – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (b.1919).
* 15 April – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b.1920).
* 17 April – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress, and New York State Council on the Arts member (b.1910).
* 3 May – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (b.1913).
* 26 May – James Beck, American art historian (b.1930).
* 28 May – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (b.1945; ALS).[19]
* 2 June – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (b.1943).
* 17 June – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b.1944).
* 22 June – Bernd Becher, German photographer (b.1931).
* 26 June – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b.1929).

### July to September

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* 7 July – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian, and critic (b.1925).
* 17 July – Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (b.1971).
* 22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist, and film director (b.1950).
* 9 August – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (b.1922).
* 11 August – Maurice Boitel, French painter (b.1919).
* 12 August
* Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman (b.1940).
* Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b.1963).
* 17 August – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (b.1936).
* 24 September – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (b.1907).
* 25 September – André Emmerich, American gallerist.

### October to December

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* 5 October – Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (b.1962).
* 8 October – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b.1917).
* 21 October
* R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (b.1932).
* Ileana Sonnabend, American art dealer and gallerist.
* 30 October – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (b.1927).
* 16 November – Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (b.1924).
* 4 December
* Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (b.1932).
* Herman Rose 98, American painter (b.1909).
* 7 December \- Noel Forster, British painter (b.1932)
* 14 December – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (b.1926).
* 31 December
* Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b. 1924).
* Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)[20]

### Undated

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* Steven Campbell, Scottish figurative painter (b. 1953)

## References

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15. ^ McIntyre, Stefanie (August 2007). "Bin Laden & Virgin Mary in Art Row". Reuters.[permanent dead link]
16. ^ "Furor over Burqa-clad Virgin Mary, Jesus morphing into Osama bin Laden". USA Today. September 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07.
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